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Birth Name: Fritz Nathan Kohn
Born: 12 May 1892 Died: 22 July 1970
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Austria
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Fritz Kortner was an Austrian-born stage and film actor and theatre director.
Kortner was born in Vienna as "Fritz Nathan Kohn." He studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. After graduating, he joined Max Reinhardt in Berlin in 1911 and then Leopold Jessner in 1916. Also in that year he made his first appearance in a silent film. He became one of Germany's best known character actors. His speciality was playing sinister and threatening roles, though he also appeared in the title role of 1930's Dreyfus.
The coming of the Nazis to power forced Kortner to flee Germany in 1933; he emigrated to the Uni
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4. The Eternal Jew (1940)
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5. Warning Shadows (1923)
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1. The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler (1943)
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2. Der Ruf (1949)
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3. A Clown Must Laugh (1936)
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4. Die Sendung der Lysistrata (1961)
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1. Sarajevo (1955)
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2. Der brave Sünder (1931)
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3. Die Sendung der Lysistrata (1961)
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4. Der Sturm (1969)
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